The second year of the show, directed by Bruce Straly and Neil Druckmann, will officially debut at the HBO and Max next Sunday, 13
After being a great success on television in 2023, in addition to winning several prizes in Emmy, The last of us He will finally return with the second season next Sunday, 13, when HBO AND Max will launch the first episode, entitled “Future days“(In reference to the song of the same name of the American Rock Band Pearl jam).
In all, the show, which will adapt the game of video games The last part of us II (2020), will have seven episodes. So far, it is not known if the new phase will completely adapt the game – and some scenes and events can be left to the season already confirmed of the season.
The first season of adaptation has a practically new cast (only Merle dandridgewho interpreted Marlene In the first game, he replaced the role) in relation to the games, with names such as Beautiful ramsey (Ellie) ,, Pedro Pascal (Joel) ,, Nico Parker (Sarah Miller) ,, Anna Torv (Theresa “Tes” Servopoulos) ,, Nick offetor (I count) ,, Melanie Lynskey (Kathleen Coghlan) ,, Storm Reid (Rileny) ,, Gabriel Luna (Tommy) AND Murray Bartlett (Frank).
The second year has some news between actors and actresses: Kaitlyn Duty (Abby Anderson) ,, Isabela Merced (Dina) ,, Danny Ramirez (Manny) ,, Tati Gabrielle (Daughter -in -Law) ,, Young mazino (Jesse), among others. Jeffrey Wright will resume the role of Isaac Dixonwho interpreted in The last part of us II.
Below, see six great game spoilers that can happen in the second season of The last of us (Warning of possible important spoilers below):
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*Note of the editor: the following list was made only on the basis of the last part US II. The writer did not access any episode of the second season in advance.
The struggle between Joel and Ellie
The second game takes place five years after the events of the first game. Among the narratives, the relationship between has changed radically. What was once parallel between father and daughter became something cold and distant, with a lot of resentment. But what happened?
At the end of the first game, when Joel takes Ellie for the basis of Vagalon For the creation of healing, he discovers that doctors would need to kill the girl to get the antidote. However, the protagonist does not accept the death of the young woman, with whom she built a beautiful relationship along their way to the place of the organization. Then he kills all those who were in place and takes Ellie Back, safely.
When you wake up, he asks what happened and Joel is: the Vagalon They have not been able to cure and had many other immune people there. Ellie Ask if this was really true and mind again. Since then, the character has been injured, after all, his purpose of life (saving humanity) has not worked.
At one point in the flashback, the player discovers the reason for the struggle between the two main characters. Ellie flee from Jackson, a safe community led by Tommyto go to the hospital where they were brought to build healing. Find an empty place with some signs of violence. Joel chases her, who faces him again for the truth. This time he says all the truth. Bad, Ellie He decides to break immediately with the one who considered a father and started avoiding him on every occasion.
At the end of The last part of us IIwe find out Ellie AND Joel They had an honest conversation and she decided to forgive him. However, exactly the next day, something tragic happens …
Joel dies (and traumatized a generation of video game players) for revenge
When he went for a ride with his brother, Tommy, Joel Find a group of people, led by AbbyWhich is surrounded by a horde of infect, almost no possibility of escaping to life. However, the couple intervenes and saves them.
When they reach a safe point, the brothers present themselves and speak their names. So the saved close their faces – and Tommy AND Joel They realize that they have had problems. Knock Out Tommy and shot at the shot on the leg Joelwhich is surrendered.
Then, Joel discover it Abby In fact, he is the daughter of the doctor of Vagalon who was responsible for healing and was killed by the hands of Joel. Since then, she has been blinded by revenge and body and soul dedicated to find those who killed his father coldly.
With Tommy eliminated, Abby Take a golf club and kill Joel slowly and painfully. While he is tortured, Joel is from Elliewhich is quickly surrendered by the group of enemies and does not reach time to save him.
Full of bruises and blood on the face, Joel tries to speak EllieBut receives a fatal blow from Abby And he loses his life. Then, Ellie A research begins to kill the villain and all the friends who participated in the death of his father.
New factions
If the first game presented Vagalon AND Soccer player, The last part of us II It reveals two great threats in this universe: Washington’s liberation front (WLFcreated by dissidents of Vagalon) and the Serafites (Also called in a popular way Scars).
Who is part WLF? Abby And the group that helped her kill Joel with cold -blooded. The big leader of the group is the impetuous Isaac. Already the Serafites They are a religious and more conservative organization: all members have a large scar on their face and wear similar uniforms, with a defined hierarchy.
Dina is pregnant!
From the beginning of the second game, it is understood that Ellie AND Dina They had some loving involvement in the past. However, they develop something deeper in the game. After finishing going out with Jesse, Dina He becomes single again and gives a kiss of soap opera Ellie A party in Jackson – and the next day Joel’s death occurs.
When it goes in search of revenge for the death of Joel, Ellie destined to go alone, but is surprised when Dina He decides to accompany it.
The days pass e Dina Start acting differently. A nausea here, a vomiting there, an indisposition there. When the two are established in an abandoned cinema, Dina reveals Ellie pregnant with Jesse. Furthermore, in this same narrative arc, Ellie It still reveals that it is immune.
New types of infected
As always, the sequels (of games, films, series or books) must expand the concept of what was presented at the beginning of the franchise.
In The last part of us IIThe players are presented to two new types of infected by the mushroom Cordyceps. However, only one of them should appear in the second season, since the other appears only more until the end of the sequel.
In the middle of the game Ellie He has to face a stumbling block, considering the fourth phase of the evolution of the mushroom next to the Bay. The difference is that the new monster has a concentration of spores on the head instead of the whole body.
Already the part of the story of Abby shows the character the most lethal infected seen during the franchise: The king of the ratschosen by several infects who have been alive since the beginning of the Apocalypse. In Part IIThe monster is trapped in a hospital, which began to treat the first people who were infected in 2013 (continuation takes place around 2038).
With a great stature, both in length and in width, The king of the rats It consists of dozens of arms and legs – and even destroyed some infects to attack Abby.
Dead (many dead)
The first game of The last of us It has some dead, but it counts significantly increases in continuation, whose adaptation must also show the fatal destination of some characters. In order not to lengthen too much, we only list names, without giving the context. They must be:
- Joel
- Isaac
- Jesse
- Jordan
- Leah
- Manny
- Honey
- Owen
- Nick
- Daughter -in -Law
- Yara
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